CNET Editors' review
Readon Free TV and Radio Player is a basic program that gives users access to a large number of international television and radio stations. It's nothing fancy, but it does contain links to a staggering amount of content.
The program's interface is simple, with its content types--TV, radio, movies on demand, and live sports--arranged in four tabs. TV and radio stations are organized alphabetically by country and genre, and drop-down menus allow users to filter results. Users simply click on the content that they want to access, and it plays either within the player itself or in the VLC player, which must be downloaded separately. The online Help file is fairly well-done, although we wished that it opened in the user's default browser and not Internet Explorer. Readon Free TV and Radio Player is a pretty basic program, but it does have a few extra features that make it stand out among similar programs. Readon provides access to quite a bit of adult content, but it provides a password-protected filter for users who want to disallow access to it. Perhaps the program's most important feature is that it allows users to record content using VLC. This didn't work for every channel we tried, but it did for quite a few of them. We also appreciated the fact that the program contains a minimum of nonfunctioning links, something that's been a problem in similar programs we've seen.
Readon Free TV and Radio Player is free. It comes as a ZIP file and installs desktop icons without asking, but it uninstalls cleanly. We recommend this program to all users.
Publisher's Description
From Readon Technology:
Readon TV Movie Radio Player is a revolutionary new software that allows you to watch thousands of TV channels, live sports channels, latest movies, listen to thousands of radio stations and read latest news reports directly on your computer. Record your favorite TV channels to mobile phone playble format. Here are some key features of Readon TV Movie Radio Player" 1. Thousands of TV and radio channels from all around the world. 2. Watch latest movies (even those showing in the cinema now) . 3. Live sports (NBA, european soccer...). 4. A large variety of genres including movies, comedy, news, general TV, kids, music, pop, jazz, classic... 5. Record TV into various fomats of video files. You are able to view recorded shows on your iPhone and Windows Mobile phone. 6. Able to work as a video converter. 7. Record TV into multiple fomat video files. 8. Adult videos search engine plugin(Thousands of videoss). 9. Flash games search engine plugin(Thousands of games). 10. Music on demand search engine plugin (Millions of MP3) 11. Movie search engine plugin. 12. User password protected to disable viewing of adult content. 13. Includes all SopCast, ShoutCast and TVU Channels. 14. Google Youtube 15. Audio CD ripper (to MP3 and lossless wave). 16. News and weather reports. 17. Free to use. 18. Auto updatable channel lists.
What's new in this version: Version 7.5 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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3.8 starsout of 76 votes
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Current version:
3.3 starsout of 13 votes
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"This program is adequate."
Version: Readon TV Movie Radio Player 7.5
Pros
It is free! One has many choices
Cons
Use of Internet Explorer slows the computer.
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"Radio Stations Galore"
Version: Readon TV Movie Radio Player 7.5
Pros
Every genre of music stations you can imagine.
Password control option to prevent Porno, etc from being watch on player.Cons
No longer able to find live sport streaming to player.
Summary
It's an excellent internet radio player which allows you to save your favorite stations. Plug in your stereo headphones to your laptop and you're set.
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"I am amazed that Readon is a freeware. Readon is super."
Version: Readon TV Movie Radio Player 7.5
Pros
Apart from 3rd Party resources that augment the thousands of TV/RADIO channel from all over the world,the daily update of channel keeps one current. The live sports programs,the video,music, games, weather plugins is what sets Readon on top of others. Any channel that cannot be played ordinariky, the Vlc player plugin would play, and what the Vlc cannot play, the server would. It also rips and converts CD plates to other file formats. Readon is just great.
Cons
If there is any thing against Readon, it is that most of the channels becomes unaccessible; and this I am sure is not their fault, but that of the Tv/Radio stations as they go on and off the air.
Summary
Readon Tv % movie radio player is first among equals. SUPER
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"DON'T bother"
Version: Readon TV Movie Radio Player 7.5
Pros
none at all
Cons
everything about it
Summary
if you like gay porn you'll love this, it's a piece of crap
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"uninstalled as soon as i could"
Version: Readon TV Movie Radio Player 7.5
Pros
lots of channels, mostly network from other cities,
Cons
not really any cable channels, pain to navigate through, seemed to attract crapware
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"easy to use"
Version: Readon TV Movie Radio Player 7.5
Pros
Ease of use and speed is adequate
Cons
The files are often of poor video quality
Summary
I'll use it until I find something better.
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"Simply Superb player"
Version: Readon TV Movie Radio Player 7.5
Pros
This is one of my favourite softwares. Whatever media you want its here - TV, radio, movies, music, even latest news and weather. Unlike others, I have not found any fault with it and its always very reliable. Its worth installing the extra plugins because this broadens your choice of media and its perfectly safe to do so. It also updates channels automatically at start-up. Customisable aswell. It really is the best!
Cons
None that I can find.
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"sure,what said by riderx.but another is better"
Version: Readon TV Movie Radio Player 7.5
Pros
Found a couple movies to watch
Cons
Found a couple movies to watch
Summary
but another is better, which is steelsoft TV.
you can search it at this site. -
"Not too sure about this, yet."
Version: Readon TV Movie Radio Player 7.5
Pros
Found a couple movies to watch.
Cons
Not really what I thought it was going to be. Some movies take a long time to buffer.
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"it is great"
Version: Readon TV Movie Radio Player 7.5
Pros
very easy to use
Cons
i see nothing
Summary
i like it very much
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